Power • Influence • Impact
This series of articles has been created to you to build your reputation, both in your current organisation, and beyond. Here is a summary of the articles for your convenience. Building Reputations in Tough Organisations Tough Challenges...
Making a good impression is vital when it comes to influence. Most people hope they have made a positive impact on those they meet. As covered elsewhere, the more positively people are thinking about you, the more likely they are to be amenable to your influence....
To really make things happen as a leader, especially in complex environments, you have to invest heavily in winning the hearts and minds of important stakeholders. Adopting a campaign approach will help you to step up from tactical influencing into the realms of the...
If you want to become more influential, it really helps if you know the how, and the why, of influence. That way you can economise on your work as an influencer, and gain a great deal more influence. At its most basic, influence is about causing someone to take a...
Tough organisations have a tendency to grind you down. The complexity, pressure, conflicting agendas, politics and bureaucracy all combine to make rapid progress extremely difficult. I don't know what your reputational ambitions are; however, I'm pretty sure that they...
An important key to influence is being able to notice before you attempt to influence what is likely to motivate someone to want to do what you want them to do. An easy way to begin learning more about motivations is to look inwardly at how and why others are able to...